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Wow I'm really starting to feel sorry for Naruka, she has it a lot worse then Kuro, Toki and Kirame, who at least had abilities backing them up. All they had to do was gang up on Teru, where as Naruka has pretty much become the punching bag of this match.

Maybe you can answer something for me. I saw in one of the spoiler pics a knife and was wondering what the hell Satoha was doing with that? Is it a real knife or metaphorical or something?

Spoiler for Guess:

I saw that pick too but are you suer it belong to Satoha?
My guess was that it belong to Naruka. She look like a bulied child here and that it's her metaphorical revenge . Cutting the ones who bulied you. After all a vanguard without gimmick here would be unintersting if she is not a skilled player (Satoha)

I saw that pick too but are you suer it belong to Satoha?
My guess was that it belong to Naruka. She look like a bulied child here and that it's her metaphorical revenge . Cutting the ones who bulied you. After all a vanguard without gimmick here would be unintersting if she is not a skilled player (Satoha)

Spoiler for Satoha or Naruka:

I was only guessing Satoha because it's been hinted that she's tied to the Yakuza (or at least that's the theory). And that kinda knife is something I see all the time with the Yakuza in manga.

I was only guessing Satoha because it's been hinted that she's tied to the Yakuza (or at least that's the theory). And that kinda knife is something I see all the time with the Yakuza in manga.

Spoiler for I saw the truth, probably:

I Guess you're probably Right. I just saw the Full pick in better Qualilty and it seem that the attack come from Satoha side.

Still poor Naruka

The worst is from our point it is easy to stop Suzu's hand. She is getting almsot ready hand but one that are composed essentialy of terminal and honor so you just keep the tile that are next to them and that are not safe. not great for attack but easy to defend.

I believe the knife referred to Satoha's counter against Suzu, where the fuse is used to describe her sudden burst of luck.

And Suzu should get the brunt of it. I don't think she will be able to avoid it as well as Tacos.

Apparently, even Tacos and Satoha already learned how Suzu plays during her burst of form. That's why Tacos threw the 6-sou instead
of 9-sou, without riichiing and which minimises the score Suzu gets. And Suzu is apparently aware Satoha is trying to block her from
winning, by keeping the two 9-pins she needs.

In most of the vanguard and captain matches, which is usually the highlight of the entire game, we will have one player who rarely does anything. Some readers will feel annoyed that the said player lack of action, but near the end of the match, the said player will made a gigantic comeback after every other players throw everything they have.

Examples:
Saki in both her Nagano Finals and Side B latest quarterfinal captain matches
Jindai's god kicks in near the end of the vanguard match
Kuro and Shizu in their respective matches in Side A semifinals

So based on this I still believe Naruka will do something within the next one or two chapters. Besides, she should be able to do something if there is a chance she's going to face Teru in the finals. I mean even Kuro managed to keep the doras away from the champion.

As of Suzu, I get that her explosion is more similar to fireworks than regular dynamite huh? Her explosion though, reduces the chance of Himematsu advancing IMO. From my prediction, if Suzu doesn't explodes here then she will in the finals. Also, from the spoilers, it seems Satoha and Yuki are able to defend against the explosions so what chance she have against Teru?

Now, if Naruka does something, depending of what it is, it may or may not increase the chances of Uzusan High advancing to the finals. If she remains like this, I'm more incline to root for Rinkai since at her current state, she's pretty much useless against Teru.

I don't really know what to think of Japanese-Mahjong-Yakuza-Batman-Shiki right now but one thing is for sure, she is one crazy motherf*****.

Satoha's hand wasn't fully shown but she seems to be building up to a pon palace there. I wonder whats the final hand shes gonna use to cut open Suzu's guts. I mean, Pon Palace limits your possible Yaku by a lot and it's unlikely for an opponent to deal into one after all.
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Satoha prefers to try an offensive defense, if we learned anything from how she contained Tacos.

Suzu has a hand that is a Honroutou Toi Toi that could easily become a San Ankou or a San Shokdoukou. At the very least, if she opens her hand, she has an easy Mangan.

Satoha has made three calls on terminal tiles. Do you think any of these players are going to play their terminals now? If the other players hold onto their terminals, then Suzu can't win. Satoha could even wait on the tiles that might flow out of Suzu's hand to call a ron on her if she tries to change her wait. She tried the same tactic with Tacos.

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And the best part: by calling three times, Suzu was skipped thrice and couldn't develop her hand.

Tacos will not deal terminals (she's in full defense mode in the south round), and Naruka should also avoid them after the last loss and the visible calls.

Suzu is fucked if she doesn't pay attention. Perhaps Satoha has 88 99 man and waiting for Suzu to either discard a 8 or a 9 in her 899 triplet.

And about that knife, that's Satoha's metaphorical knife. In the first scene it was show, she was planning on taking it out but Suzu won her hand. On the next round, she took it out again and started pon-palacing.

And about that knife, that's Satoha's metaphorical knife. In the first scene it was show, she was planning on taking it out but Suzu won her hand. On the next round, she took it out again and started pon-palacing.

That's what I thought but you cannot be too sure. Remember that girl in Achiga sitting at the table with two swords

Wow that's pretty pathetic for the male players. And I do mean pathetic, besides Izumi not being able to defend properly, when that's what her job is supposed to be, she also isn't able to take on Nodoka when she isn't in Noddocci mode.

I guess the girls are just more serious during their high school years, maybe the boys start to actually come through when they go to pro?

And this really makes Kyouturo even more pathetic as a player. Now what would be hilarious is that if the manga continues to Saki's second, is that he becomes the individual champion for boys, of course this has to happen of screen because seriously Kyouturo actually winning a match, let a lone a tournament? That'd be pretty darn funny.

See that bolded part? Yeah. So the Boys Interhigh Champion is only as good as Izumi. You know, THAT Izumi. The one who was the target of her Sergeant's match.

I wonder if the translators are going to fix the scores then for this chapter?
I also wonder what kind of mistake does the Spook's card have?
It seems the guys in Saki are truly pathetic, aside from Hagiyoshi who is just too awesome.
Finally i'm glad we figured out who's who in the new beach scene. However it makes me more curious about the six hermits.

And the chapter is officially out. It seems the translators did indeed fix the scores. I love the way this game is being played so far. Its pretty fun to watch Satoha operate and Yuuki being very smart when she plays.

While I'm more likely rooting for Rinkai at this point, I still had room for doubt regarding Uzusan's Naruka to pull off some wins.

Outlooks of Semi Side B match. Which team will more likely advance?

Vanguard: Point goes to those who has potential to give Teru a challenge. May possess certain ability and/or strategy that can limit Teru hands or work against her combo to a certain extent.

Sergent: No idea. Sergent match is least shown compere to other matches.

Leutenent: No idea. Hisa probabily do better than her previous match (and get her revenge on Hiroe, hopefully)

Vice-Cap: Points given to the one who manages to break Noddochi not because I despise Nodoka's playstyle or boobs, but if that team advance, Nodoka will get her revenge.

In terms or character relevancy Nodoka is the sacond only to Saki as the main character and this is the second to last match of the team tournament which is fitting for her character to get some long over due development especially with her promise to Shizu.

Lastly, the captain: Of course, double the points to those who has ability or tactic that can counter or at least put strain on Saki.

I'm surprised that this hasn't been brought up yet. But one of the animators for Achiga wanted to hype of episode 16 (which is going to air in a few hours time!) by drawing characters. Here are a few that I really like:

Also, a neat fact: Did you know that Ako has a reputation of being an enjo kosai? Especially in doujins. Nao Toyama, Ako's VA, was surprised that when she was recording Ako's Character Song, the sound director asked her not to make Ako sound erotic.